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Humans have been moving from the hinterlands to the cities for hundreds of years. It's the natural flow of civilization. That said, what's the Brodeur quote? "Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off?" It's not like everybody woke up one day, sold their holdings at fair market value and hitched a Trailways to prosperity. There's a lot of new ghost towns in the desert Southwest. You drive through them and think about the intentions reflected in the detritus you see, the dreams that died, the plans that changed, the lives that were never the same. I am Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works ye mighty and despair.